Make sure to completely vet all showings social media, copy of birth certificate, drivers license, passport, blood sample, medical records, geneology report.Then be sure to record all conversations, make a journal of your thoughts and impressions of every interaction, be sure to have multiple go-pro cameras on your person, like attached to a helmet or body rig.

What is required is a valid passport.  

No SSN, Ghana Passports on file.We will be requiring full background checks and fresh leases for them (and all other tenants) to remain in the units after their current leases expire 12/31.Anyone have experience or recommendations on adequately screening them to ensure we aren't missing anything?

A valid passport, and a getaway vehicle.If the appreciation is really ballooning, maybe take your profits while the market is up, load up on liquidity and be ready to scoop up something really good when it goes to hell.Phoenix is a very bi-polar market.

I use "Fidelity Title Passport Pro" but you have to know a Title Agent who is willing to give you access.

An identification number for a U.S. person is a taxpayer identification number (TIN) (or evidence of an application for one), and an identification number for a non-U.S. person is one or more of the following: a TIN; a passport number and country of issuance; an alien identification card number; or a number and country of issuance of any other unexpired government-issued document evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph or similar safeguard.

Extremely interesting post...awesome investing somewhere else as a form of retirement (im looking at costa rica)...IF you invest as a foreign investor does the country give you any perks such as residency or a DR passport As for the post....would it be rented out to international travellers/vacationers or would it be rented by long term DR residents? 

Side note:  Mr Hughes bought a plane and is updating his passport...hmmm...what does that tell you???